Ireland’s Martian Subculture creates leftfield, lo-fi psych rock. An eerie, restrained vocal is surrounded by kooky, comatose guitars on tracks that oscillate between themes of love, loneliness and interplanetary exploration. Recorded alone in a bedroom studio, latest single All Emotions Are Equal is an irresistible invitation into a new sonic universe. Continue reading Martian Subculture – All Emotions Are Equal
[Extract] Heavy funk Dystopia-punk canons Lonnnnng jams Bloated solos dribbling down your caved-in chest. Human cattle like a beef avalanche, right on your burned out face hole. Spider legs fuzz crawling in your brain. Face Stabber, the latest long player from the Oh Sees is released on Friday. This is a very good thing. Continue reading Oh Sees – Face Stabber
Australia’s marvellous King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are soon to release their fifteenth studio album – Infest The Rats’ Nest – on August 16 (ATO Records). Released just six months after the uplifting blues-rock boogie of Fishing For Fishes, and drawing on the mid/late 1980s golden period of thrash metal – Metallica and Slayer, certainly, but also lesser-cited bands such as Exodus, Kreator and Overkill … Continue reading King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Organ Farmer Video
So the day after the UK decide to follow the US and put a monumental idiot in charge of the country we definitely need some feel-good sunshine vibes from somewhere. Happily the Allah-Las are back with a new album Lahs, and a new track In The Air that ticks all the right boxes from its persistent shuffle to the way electric guitar and mellotron trade … Continue reading Allah-Las – In The Air
Just a couple of days ago we posted Oh Sees’ video for Poisoned Stones in Part 1 of our Mega Round Up. Now we have the shorter, faster, more violent Heartworm for you. The world’s so fucked up We’ve got worms swimming in our guts Fabulous. Watch it here. Continue reading Oh Sees – Heartworm
Bristol band Some Bodies have a brand new single called TV Show. It is beautifully constructed and well crafted indie-pop that utilises a killer krautrock riff, effortlessly intertwining it with ethereal dream-pop breakdowns. Think Ty Segall crossed with Foxygen… maybe. Anyway, have a listen. Continue reading Introducing >>> Some Bodies
Following on from yesterday’s Round Up (Part 1), here are a few quieter, more reflective tunes. But all equally good! First up is Katie Toupin, ex of Houndmouth, and the title track to her new album. Magnetic Moves is a gem of hook filled indie pop. We’re big, big fans of Frog’s ‘wyrd Americana’, and they do not disappoint with latest track Black Friday … Continue reading Mega Round Up (Part 2)
We’ve been catching up (again) on some new tunes and, well frankly, there are just too many of the bloody things. Here are a few of the loud / fast / brutal / noisy ones we’ve really liked from the last month or so, and there’ll be a few more (quieter ones) tomorrow. So here we go… The Hives are back with new single Good … Continue reading Mega Round Up (Part 1)
Known for delivering layered echo-drenched guitar with heavy, relentless drums, London based duo Black Doldrums are returning with their expansive new EP She Divine on Club AC30. The title refers to Aldous Huxley’s 1954 psychedelia-induced masterpiece The Doors of Perception, where constant reference is made to the search for divinity and how all cultures are united in the need for that same search. Utilising waves of … Continue reading Black Doldrums – She Divine EP
Famed for their wall of sound, and notoriously difficult to label (they themselves describe their music as “psychedelic, socialist, utopian, death raga, erroneous funk, trapdoor jazz, bastard muzak“), the origins of Meatraffle are lost in obscurity although it has been said that they came about as the result of a drunken afternoon shared by Clams Baker and Zsa Zsa Sapien in a South London Wetherspoon … Continue reading Meatraffle – The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Mad Mackerel 